What.

WHAT.


I have to say while that render does look badass, giving Sonic a weapon of whatever kind is so damn out of character it's not even funny anymore. HE'S NATURE. HE FIGHTS WITH ONLY HIS BODY. DAMMIT.

EDIT: Fuck, I typo'd "Knight". Could someone with topic title editing powers fix that for me please?

So this was the top secret game Nintendo Power was talking about? :(

What in the living hell...? Sonic does attack using his body, not swinging a sword around.

I'm hoping that this doesn't mean it will suck.

SWORDS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER.

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A NEW ZELDA/KINGDOM HEARTS/ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.
WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK.
FGDFGDFG


FUCK YOU SEGA.

FUCK YOU.

This was suppose to be a new Camelot non-Mario Sports game ;o;

I LOL'D

Atleast it's not Earthbound.

lol name and address

GOOD OR EVIL?
YOU DECIDE

IT'S THE REVENGE OF BLACK DOOM

No, the thing said something about it being fit for a king. The game is Little King's Story.

King Arthur ins in Black Knight.


Oh and, having seen the scans, this actually looks like it might be good.


Oh god I'm falling into the "hopeful" Sonic fan stereotype again. FUCK.

Whoa. Looks like the Gran Centurio. Hehe, it'll be funny to see how this one turns out.

It looks nothing like the Gran Centurio.

The games looks okay personally i liked secret rings and I hope this is'nt a disssapointment. Why dont we have a thread for Sonic Unleashed which is coming out earlier

hm.... i heard about this game my little brother plans on getting it.

SONIC IS BEING KILLED!!!

I love Sonic, and I regret to inform you that he's DYING!

Sonic Team has added WAY too many useless, meaningless, stupid characters (Eggman Nega, Blaze, Jet, Silver, etc.) and the storylines SUCK. Arabian Nights? King Arthur? WTF? What's next, Robin Hood? No, I know! Let's put a gerbil in the team next! I first noticed Sonic's decline in Shadow the Hedgehog, which used GUNS, which Sonic characters should NEVER use, and completely mixed up Shadow's past because it doesn't canon with SA2 (Which was Sonic at his best). And now Sonic gets a sword?! He doesn't need one! And what the hell is with Sonic Unleashed? A werehedghog? NO. If you need power, go get Knuckles. Don't mutate a lovable, awesome creature. That's what TMNT is for.

I weep for Sonic. Chronicles for DS looks okay, but again has crappy new characters.


PLEASE SONIC TEAM, SAVE SONIC!!! :(

HOW DARE THEY TRY TO BE NEW AND EXCITING. BURN THE NONBELIEVERS!

S3&K was Sonic at his best.
Get out.

I can't believe you guys. It always goes like this: New game gets announced > hype > the game is released > disappointment, and repeat.

Screw you. If they added halfway decent new characters, I wouldn't be complaining. But like I said, they are all useless, meaningless extra characters. They are just add-ons in a futile attempt to keep Sonic's franchise fresh. If they want to keep Sonic cool, they should revert to the old things that made Sonic so great. This, and they should create characters who actually add something to the series.

I meant Sonic at his best in his new age.
In 2-D side scrollers, I love all of his Genesis games, especially Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

Don't screw Walrus!

Also, they should stop making these spinoff Sonic games and just make them regular games rather than Sonic games.

Thank you! Stupid spinoffs. Billy Hatcher sucks!

Oh, and sorry, Walrus. :(

It's just this injustice gets me angry!

Actually Sonic Chronicles isn't bad. It's a pretty solid rpg, and the references to the sidescrollers and more recent games are pretty funny.

The story's not all over the place like in Sonic Battle (which was not a bad game, mind you).

True. But still too many half-assed characters. And really - who wants Big on their team? I love cats (This is why I tend to badmouth Blaze the least out of all the new guys), but Big is an atrocity.

Agreed. Sonic Battle was a lot of fun, but I hated how the storyline was so jumpy and the area were limited. And that Emerl was never seen again, unless you count Sonic Advance 3.

OH, RLY?

AWESHOME!

No, that's not a typo. It's "awesome" in my language.

Seriously, though, that's really cool. But, there's no mention of Emerl, huh?

Is this the one where Sonic inexplicably turns into a werewolf?
I think I remember reading something about that.

Also, you swing [at air] to swing his sword. As in the Wii Dragon Quest game. LOL

Sonic has been dying since the end of the Saturn era. You're pretty late Neon.

I would say in S2 and S3&K he was dying already as well but!

That's Sonic Unleashed.

PPA, you only like the crappy games, you don't get to talk.

BLUBLUBLU SWORD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtqkeFsuqk0

Jesus christ.

On the plus side, Crush 40 are back. Fuck yeah.

Fuck Crush 40 and their rocks songs, electric guitars and manly voices.

BLASPHEMY! Crush 40 rocks!

Altohugh I do like the old games, I still love the Sonic Adventure series. Sonic Heroes was iffy, but the Genisis, Saturn, and Dreamcast games definitely qualify as classics. This INCLUDES SA2. Sonic's downfall started in Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Rush, and Sonic Riders, as far as I'm concerned. Sure the gameplay for most of Sonic's games are great, but since they're so playable, people think it's okay to forget the STORY AND CHARACTERS.

There are three explanations for this:

1. Yuji Naka stopped producing.
2. Sonic Team has gotten lazy.
3. Both Yuji Naka and Sonic Team have been abducted by space Mexicans and were replaced by evil clones. Their original selves were then destroyed because they knew too much.

Sonic started going down in the 5th generation, but Adventure 1 was still fun. 2's first 3 levels or so for Sonic are fucking awesome, and then the rest of the game blows.

hut up about Yuju Naka. he hated Sonic and while I had to admit he was a fantastic coder he never really had a clue what the series was about.

And imo Sonic Adventure 2 was good or at least decent. It just didn't feel like a Sonic game any more.
SA1 was pretty crappy though, While I only played the GC version which I assume to be worse. The real world setting was boring, 2/3 of the music sucked (the other 1/3 was some of the best in the series though), the game was even glitchier than S06 (or about on par) and the controls were even worse. Still, it did have some highlights. The story wasn't bad (even though unnecessary in the first point)(Gamma's story standing out especially though) and playing as Tails or Gamma was a lot of fun. Sonic and Knuckles less so but still bearable and Amy and Big just sucked.

What would make you people happy, then? A game where Sonic runs past some hills, industrial sites, ancient ruins, casinos, and mountains, while attacking a large mustachioed man for no apparent reason?

Yeah. The other ones did suck, especially the last levels, like Final Rush and Meteor Herd. WTF? Talk about way too complicated. The only stages I really liked were City Escape, Metal Harbor, Green Hill Zone, and Dry Lagoon.


Agreed. Green Hill Zone was AWESOME (they thought of everything!), but that's about all. Even though the stages I just mentioned were cool, I would have much preferred the older style of Sonic's zones. The Marble Garden, Green Hill, Angel Island, HydroCity, and Hilltop zones were all amazing. I would have loved seeing them in a 3-D Sonic game.

A game where Sonic runs through stages progressively more influenced by human presence to fight a large moustachioed man because of his goal to eradicate life and replace all sentient beings with robots while covering the world in metal.
Gameplay specifications left out for now.


Aside from GHZ those are all still pretty tame heh. I was rather thinking Sonic CD's and Knuckles Chaotix stages with their unrivalled surreality and unique style. But still, yeah.

Oh, I forgot about those! Definitely them, too.

This doesn't fit well for a lot of the older Sonic games. S2 and S&K come to mind.

That (amongst a few other things) is the reason I dislike Sonic 2 and S3&K and only regard Sonic 1 (if you tke the beta level order from the level select screen) and Sonic CD as the only "true" Sonic games. And Naoto Oshima as the most important members of old Sonic Team. (S2 and S3&K were made by STI, with only about one half of Sonic Team being involved. The other half stayed in Japan and made Sonic CD.)

Well, they're Sonic games so you can't just label them as "false."

You can when you're German. PPA's such a Deutsch >:(

i c wut u did thar